Tools/QR Code Generator

Label objects with notes and knowledge - QR code generator

Tool Description QR CODE GENERATOR allows you to make the 2D patterns most often used in advertising or retailing. A QR code may contain a page of text; a link to a web page or photo or all your contact details. When you have made the code, a mobile device with an app, such as Google Goggles, is used to read it. You could for example use QR code^(tool) patterns to offer information of objects in a display cabinet, or make use of the time pupils spend queuing in the corridor, put a QR code^(tool) with useful facts on the classroom door. The gain is that you can get data into a mobile device, and possibly a student too, without typing. The QR code can get a phone number ready to dial; create a text message; put a date in your diary or show you a place on a map. A link below offers classroom ideas. ^(edit)

Teaching Approach. QR codes can be used to embed links to further information in visualisations^(ta), perhaps making use of corridor displays to link to wikipedia pages on current topics. ^(edit)

Tool details
Title	Label objects with notes and knowledge
Topic	[[Topics/QR codes|QR codes]]
Licence / Cost / Platform	Web tool allows you to create a code. A phone or webcam app is needed to scan the pattern
Subject / Categories	ToolInfo, QR codes
Teaching Ideas / Links	Richard Byrne offers ideas for the use of QR codes at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/qr-codes-explained-and-ideas-for.html#.UEYYwaAmySo
Link	http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ also http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/